Judges at the International Criminal court are due to sentence a former conga rebel leader of war crimes and sexual slavery. The impeachment inquiry into donald trump is stepping up a gear televised hearings starting next week washingtons top diplomat in ukraine William Taylor will be one of the 1st to appear or taylor said in earlier testimony it was his clear understanding trump would withhold Critical Military aid to ukraine unless kiev investigated his political rivals joe biden and his son that testimony also supports what other witnesses have said i think you will see throughout the course of the testimony not only their testimony but many others the. Most important facts are largely not contested we are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as furthe
A possible act of terror on saturday a gunman opened fire on the r. Nor Islamic Center in oslo before being overpowered by a civilian only one Person Injured police say the suspect appears to hold far right and anti immigrant views hes been charged with murder after his 17 year old stepsister was found dead at a separate location now as Prime Minister says the government has a plan though to tackle hate speech. Spanish Emergency Services of moved about a 1000 people from their homes as a wildfire on the Canary Island of gran canaria spreads and its been burning since saturday it has so far charred about 1000 hectares of land and wildfires also threatening homes on the southern greek island of elephant sauce people were moved from a tourist camp and nearby houses on saturday strong winds and high temperatures of help dozens of fires broke out across greece since friday of the venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has rallied to hundreds of supporters with an upbeat message of defiance aga
Good rajapaksa led the military to victory over the tamil tigers ending 26 years of civil war. He was given a free hand by his brother then president Mahinda Rajapaksa to do so. But accusations of human rights abuses and walk rhymes. Many tamils in the north and east are still looking for answers about their missing relatives or those abducted under rajapakse as watch some complain of intimidation and harassment when they tried to speak up sherry in savior who has worked with these communities says his candidacy for president is causing concern hes seen terminator of dissent yes so in that context like you know people are a bit worried about i mean any kind of dissent will not be tolerated rajapaksa seems to be aware of such concerns telling the Party Convention on sunday that the diversity of communities. Is its strength its taken one term for sri lankans who voted rajapaksa president out of office to look at his brother as a potential leader the reason according to one political comm
Became doldrums labor secretary he resigned following renewed scrutiny of that plea deal it would be selfish for me to stay in this day and when you are talking about it all heres all that in about 8 on me right now even off to epsteins release as a registered sex offender he mixed in elite circles but in july federal prosecutors ordered his arrest again his house was searched and probes of evidence seized its expected that civil proceedings will continue against epsteins est and perhaps the truth of who epstein was will be settled time see aljazeera. More than 50000 opposition protesters have rallied in russias capital the demonstration was the biggest of its kind in years they were protesting against some candidates being excluded from local elections next month more than 200 people were arrested step barzan reports from moscow. This huge turnout shows that the governments crackdown is not working despite massive arrest in the past weeks more people have gathered to demand that and t
Already been killed because of this crisis so we need the fighting to end a peaceful resolution so that people can get the help they need i thank you so much for explaining the situation there now protesters in hong kong have been out in force once again across different parts of the city the latest standoff took place inside a train station that was filled with smoke after police fired tear gas at protesters earlier officers trying to disperse a crowd that surrounded a Police Station as a major shopping district some of the scenes played out across the city as police tried to chase away crowds who set up barricades meanwhile a 3 day sit in in Hong Kong International airport appears to be wrapping up the protest movement is now entering its 10th week bryant has the latest from hong kong. Weve had a another day of the typical hong kong protests they start quite peacefully almost in a carnival type atmosphere as you mentioned that the protests that were taking place today are not allowed